The mystery surrounding missing Veena Malik seems to be solved for now - Veena Malik found in Mumbai.
The Pakistani model at the center of the FHM India naked cover girl row, who was reported missing on Friday has turned up safe in a hotel in Mumbai, India.
Veena Malik, who posed nude for the Indian version [...]
Ajay Piramal is sitting on a mountain of cash. Yet the billionaire Indian tycoon, working in one of the world’s fastest growing economies, is struggling to decide what to do with the money.
The problem isn’t opportunity, he said. It’s India.
“Every large investment, there was no transparency,” Piramal said.
His dilemma is a worrying sign for India. [...]
“The Nation” is the latest to report that Malik has in fact crossed the border into Pakistan to renew her 45-day Indian visa under the guise of a burqa.
Indeed, movies are made of such stuff. So while Malik’s manager, Pratiek Mehta, has informed the Bandra police in Mumbai on Saturday and is waiting for another [...]
A landmark bill to create an independent anti-graft watchdog agency heads Wednesday to India’s upper house of parliament.
A day earlier, the Lok Sabha — or the lower house — passed the bill after a marathon session in New Delhi
And while the ruling Congress Party’s alliance does not have a majority in the upper house, or [...]
A handful of industry folks had ever heard the name: Poonam Pandey. But all that changed when the Cricket World Cup rolled around this spring season.
The things people do for five minutes of fame, and this aspiring model milked it for all its worth by promising to strip down to her birthday suit if Team [...]
Weeks from now, the Swiss Alpine resort of Davos will play host to the annual stellar gabfest of economic thinkers, leaders and corporate czars who will together try valiantly to make sense of a world economy that appears rapidly to be spinning out of orbit.
Up until two years ago, India enjoyed a luminous presence at [...]
While the world is waiting with bated breath for news about Veena Malik to surface, or rather her whereabouts after she went reportedly “missing” from Mumbai on Friday morning, a Pakistani newspaper claims to have her pegged down in her home country.
“The Nation” is the latest to report that Malik has in fact crossed the [...]
Five minutes of fame have stretched to 15 and still going strong as controversy queen Veena Malik continues to hog the limelight weeks after her nude photoshoot appeared in FHM magazine, with the initials of the ISI, Pakistan’s spy agency etched on her arm.
Film stories are made of the intrigue that followed with Malik accusing [...]
A recent development in the Veena Malik nude photo scandal has a committee issuing a “fatwa” against the topless FHM India cover model. The order will have Malik ex-communicated from at least one community due to several recent events and choices made by the actress.
As the Veena Malik scandal has drawn the criticism of other [...]
World renowned Indian economist Jagdish N. Bhagwati Thursday slammed the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government for its policy on 2G spectrum allocation, saying its auctioning may have prevented the scandal from arising.
Bhagwati, presently senior fellow in international economics at the US-based Council on Foreign Relations, said this in the presence of Home Minister P. Chidambaram, [...]
A new development in the Veena Malik nude photo scandal has surfaced online as the Pakistani actress was recently working on a movie. It now appears that the topless FHM India cover model may be missing in India!
Sexy model and actress Veena Malik is recently famous for her nude FHM cover photo complete with “ISI” [...]
The Veena Malik scandal continues, as this time she is responding to allegations that she set up a publicity stunt to go “missing” in Mumbai. The actress and nude FHM India cover model recently appeared at a press conference to “clear up” the story.
First, there was the nude Veena Malik scandal over her alleged photos [...]
The latest Veena Malik nude photo scandal chapter saw the topless FHM India model go missing in action during a movie shoot. It was later reported she was hiding out at a hotel, but that hasn’t stopped fans from tweeting jokes and comments about it all!
It was being reported that Veena Malik was missing after [...]
The father of Pakistani actress Veena Malik, embroiled in a scandal over a nude photo on the cover of a popular men’s magazine, has disowned her and said she needs to be punished if found guilty as an example to other women.
Malik’s father, Malik Mohammad Aslam, told the daily Mirror in London in what the [...]
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Four giants of corporate India have been charged with conspiracy and cheating in relation to their ownership [...]
The Veena Malik nude scandal has been turning heads, igniting discussions of politics or morality, and causing lawsuits. It’s also brought a lot of traffic to many sites and has surpassed the top of Osama bin Laden’s death for at least one site.
The Veena Malik nude FHM controversy has brought all sorts of consequences including [...]
With sports in every school’s curriculum, I wonder whether children are still taught the virtues embodied in this often aggressive form of physical activity — mental and physical well-being, spirit of sportsmanship, importance of fair play, generosity in victory and acceptance of loss. These were drilled into us in our day and any show of [...]
India’s decision to suspend plans to open its $470 billion retail sector to foreign supermarket chains has only served to deepen the impression of a government in permanent drift, analysts say.
In a humiliating climb down on Wednesday, the government capitulated in the face of pressure from opposition MPs and trade unions and shelved the major [...]
Foreign investors watched dismayed as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s government took “one step forward, two steps back” on a major retail reform to appease opposition parties and waspish allies.
They know it is unlikely the government will evolve a political compromise on the issue during the ongoing session of Parliament, which ends on 21 December. They [...]
Concern that slowing growth, a gloomy global outlook with Eurozone in crisis and the US economy still sluggish and graft scandals at home are souring the India story, saw Prime Minister Manmohan Singh turn to FDI in retail as a mood changer.
A recognition that urgent steps were needed to shore up the economy led Singh [...]
India signaled it’s prepared to act against excessive declines in the rupee, as Asia’s worst performing currency this year threatens to exacerbate the fastest inflation among so-called BRIC nations and hurt growth.
The recent sharp depreciation isn’t a sign of “helplessness in dealing with the kind of global turbulence we are seeing,” central bank Deputy Governor [...]
It follows a court decision on Monday to grant her bail.
She denies conspiracy and accepting bribes in the alleged mis-selling of telecoms licences, which auditors say cost the country about $40bn (£24.5bn).
Former telecoms minister A Raja is among 14 people charged in the case. They all deny any wrongdoing.
On Monday, the Delhi high court also [...]
ndia ranks lower than China (75th) on the new list but higher than Pakistan (134th). Nepal at 154th is the lowest ranking South Asian nation.
New Zealand is top and Somalia bottom of the list.
Almost two-thirds of the nations scored less than five, with Transparency International saying: “Corruption continues to plague too many countries around the [...]
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